VILNIUS - The Police Department has apologized for a book tarnishing the image of Lithuania's freedom defenders. However, the apology also suggests that officers maintain their previous position - that the demonstrating activists were little more than hooligans.
"This is not a thorough monograph meant for a narrow circle of specialists. This is just a part of a Lithuanian police chronicle, a documentary feature, which has only one purpose, i.e. interest as many people as possible. These books include many documents, pictures, brief comments of contemporary employees, explanations or vivid memories. And assessments are a prerogative of historians, political scientists, law specialists," reads a Police Department press release signed by spokeswoman Danute Daunoraviciute.
Among other things, the press release says that "such things should be assessed more carefully, more critically, as human memory is not a very reliable source and everybody can forget or confuse something."
